adv. [f. FLOCK sb.1 + -WISE.] In flocks or in a flock or group.
1837. Longf., Frithiof’s Homestead, 10.
| ’Mid these scattered, now here and now there, were numberless flocks of | |
| Sheep with fleeces white, as thou seest the white-looking stray clouds, | |
| Flock-wise spread o’er the heavenly vault, when it bloweth in spring-time. | |
| Ibid. (1855), Hiaw., xvi. 248. | |
| Round him hovered, fluttered, rustled | |
| Hiawatha’s mountain chickens, | |
| Flock-wise swept and wheeled about him, | |
| Almost brushed him with their pinions. |
